Banc of California in Irvine is acquiring Popular Community Bank's 20 Southern California offices, part of a deal in which Popular Inc., Puerto Rico's largest bank, is shedding 41 mainland U.S. branches.

In a cost-cutting consolidation, Banco Popular's U.S. unit plans to exit Orlando by shuttering its local back-office operation and selling its nine Central Florida branches to Fort Pierce-based Harbor Community Bank, officials said Wednesday.
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Banc of California, a growing community bank in Irvine, is doubling its footprint in Southern California as it joins a new wave of smaller California banks pushing to expand into regional players in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the Great...

Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach just sent shareholders a dividend check — the 477th since the institution began giving them out in 1915. If that seems high, there's a reason. The bank sometimes gives out extra dividends, or a total of five...